HOW ARE YOU?

We have been doing well in Korea.

The English teacher has been unable to meet this past week. We took him by a gift and hopefully we will be able to meet him more this coming week!

The every day invitation turned out to be an "every other day" invitation, but he is doing so well. We are so excited to teach him. When we talked to him about his dad he said that right now is not the right time and then intimated that his father would attend after he started attending (which he promised to start attending in June...but we are working to help him realize that he can go now). He understands really well!

The politician is doing well. He went to the Phillipines this week, so we weren't able to meet. But, by the grace of God we met him on the street and were able to talk and set up another appointment!

Jason continues to elude; although we called him and saw him another time (by the grace of God) and he seems to want to meet us later. He has a lot of potential, so we are hoping to meet him later and help him in his journey to find the way to God.

We met two more investigators this week!

The first called the sisters off of an English advertisement and was a former investigator from 2010. He is a great person and has the general Korean culture dream (to own Tony Stark's car in Ironman and make enough money for his wife to spend a lot of it...) He believes in "himself" or whatever he thinks is good, and seems to be willing to try to believe in God. We are excited for him!

The other person is a true miracle. We had him referred from Gwangju...and he lived in the area that I last served in! He has so much Gospel interest it really makes our other investigators pale in comparison. We met him first at a dinner appointment where we talked to him a little bit more about Joseph Smith and the Book Of Mormon. Taught him how to pray and he prayed in teh restaurant on the spot. After we ate he asked if he could go to the church! We took him to the sacrament meeting room and (because Koreans love to sing) we sang with him Joseph SMith's first vision (which we had recently just talked about) as well as some other good hymns. He felt the spirit and had his troubled heart (because of friends) calmed down. He is really excited to meet us again and we are planning on taking him to a FHE with two of the greatest families in the ward this week! Super excited.

This past week we had stake conference. At stake conference, the Area Seventy and one of the Quorum of the Seventy spoke to us. It was good, to say the least. The Seventy was Japanese, so it was translated from Japanese to Korean at the pulpit, which was great. The messages were really good.

Particularly, the Area Seventy spoke about Elder Packer and his son. Elder Packer's son got into a car accident which caused the car to smoke and flame. Elder Packer said that his son called him and told him about the car. Elder Packer then responded, that's ok. But how are you? Again his son tells him about the wrecked car. Again Elder Packer responded "But how are you?" He then explained that one of the reasons that Elder Packer's son called him was to hear his father's voice and be comforted. His son sought his voice. He then told another story similar in nature of someone at a hospital. The underlying message was seeking our Heavenly Father's voice. When things are maybe not as they should be, we should seek our Heavenly Father's voice. In like manner, Heavenly Father's greatest concern is not the things that are going on, but us. We are His children and He cares for us. His purpose is to enable us to become like Him.

The Gospel Principles book states that God does not do anything that does not further us to become like Him (which makes sense because that is His purpose). That also includes doing the things that He does not do. Which goes to show the importance of agency. The things that He does not prevent because of the importance of agency in His plan. Also, thinking on the Plan of Salvation, God has done everything, absolutely everything for us in order for us to receive salvation. He has done His all to prepare the way, the question is whether or not we will do our all to travel the way.

I also came to the realization or was reminded of the fact that we need faith in God and Jesus Christ. For life eternal is to know God and Jesus Christ. Which points out the great tragedy of the great Apostasy, which at its heart corrupted the very central principle needed for eternal life-namely, the correct understanding of the nature and characteristics of God--namely, the very basis on which Jesus Christ Himself said that eternal life is based. The Restoration was needed!

I love you all so very much! You are a light to me even though I am not with you...I smile all the time when I think about you! I love you so much!

Have a wonderful week and enjoy the pictures!!!